Brian Sullivan, eBird Project Leader and guest speaker at HawkWatch International's 2012 Wings Across the West fundraiser, interviews on 88.3 KCPW's "CityViews" show with Jennifer Napier-Pearce on September 20, 2012 to talk about Citizen Science. Click here to listen to the full interview.

Steve Slater, Conservation Director, interviews on KPCW's "This Green Earth" show on July 31, 2012 to talk about HawkWatch International's cheatgrass research project. Click here to listen to the full interview.

The invasive winter–annual cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) has degraded public and private lands throughout the Western United States, particularly in the Great Basin region of Utah (Knapp 1996). Cheatgrass invasion supports a loss of native vegetation, heightened fire risk and decline in biodiversity has potentially severe implications for land managers,…

Download press release HawkWatch International (HWI) has been awarded a prestigious Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA) grant to predict over which mountain ridges in the U.S. west raptors may migrate. The project will help ensure that potential new ridge top developments such as wind turbines are situated in low-impact…

Dr. Steven Slater, Conservation Director for HWI, appeared on the KRCL radio program RadioActive! to discuss the organization's history, ongoing monitoring conducted at migration sites, and the many issues negatively impacting raptors throughout their range. Click here to listen to the interview: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1855604/RadioActive/RadioActive!.Sept.21.Hawks.and.Wall.St

Coverage of the recent Gulf Coast oil spill, a.k.a Deepwater Horizon, has overwhelmed our public discussions since it first started gushing from the ocean floor on April 20. The initial explosion that set the tragedy in motion killed 11 platform workers and injured 17 others. The Deepwater Horizon spill has…

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published a series of technical reports based on HWI studies of the implications of raptor nesting near oil and gas development. Technical Report 432 - Raptor Nesting Near Oil and Gas Development: An Overview of Key Findings and Implications for Management Based on…